Guild Wars 2

I’d love to see more specialized gear. It seems once you hit 80 and get Rare gear and rune it all out your done.. This is easy done by foraging or buying gold. The best gear in game is crafted and readily available. So maxing out your character doesn’t take long. Doing all the instances you want ec.. etc.. improves your characters ability/gear very little. If you want to keep the hard core Daily players that plays for hours daily.. There has to be significant benefit involved in gear or boredom will set in.. You can goto the trader and get Rare lvl 80 gear for a few gold equivalent to the Karma/instance gear. So what is the point of the questing/instance gear?

All advancement after 80 seems to be austetics.. no real weapon damage/gear upgrades. Sure you can run around doing things, but there is basicly 0 character progression for it. I guess you could start a ranking table of who has the most money in the bank.. but that doesn’t even have a true value because you can buy it.. Love the game but upset there is no benefit for your time after 80.. The way I see it.. Lvl your character to 80.. Gear him/her out.. and then make an alt.. till you get tired of repeated grinding…
The Game doesn’t seem to have a long life.. not for the true Hardcore player.. I played eq1/eq2 combined for over 10yrs.. Love the game but if there isn’t significant characer benefit for the time put in and the average social player has the same gear dmg/stats wise then there isn’t any benefit to me putitng in 6+ hrs a day after lvl hitting max lvl.

Now for the easy stuff.. How about tool belts for consumeables and toggle on/off food option. With most food being 30min duration.. half the time I’m starving.. /p